How to assign addEventListener to 52 Buttons?!

Question

Hi there! I am not an expert in Flash and my problem might looks silly.
But anyway, my problem is that, I have 52 Button instances on Scene 1 as bellow: 
B1 , B2 , B3 , ... , B52 and I want to assign seperated actions for each of them. The way I currently CAN do that is this: 
B1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, B1F);
B2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, B2F);
B3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, B3F);
B52.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, B4F); But the way I CANT do this, is that I use a formula like WHILE for example, to do this for all of them together... for example: 
var i:int = 1;
var test:string;
while (i<53) {
test = "B" + i
test.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, test + "F");
i++;
} But "test.addEventListener(..." does not work, and Flash searches for a function named "test" instead of working with the VALUE of "test". hope it is not confusing? What is the right way to do this in your opinion??? Any sort of help is really appreciated - Ali

Answer 1

You said: What functionality differentiates the event handler functions (B1F,B2F,etc)?  You may be able to have one function for all of them.
I was thinking I can do that myself But I couldnt as well...
Ok.....what I have now (with your kind help) is the code below to assign Listeners to 52 Buttons at once:
var i:int = 1;
while (i<53){
   this["B" + i + "_mc"].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, this["B" + i + "F"]);
   i++;
But now I have 52 Functions! that do the same job as you said!
fnctions B1F(event:MouseEvent):void {
       var i:int = 1;
       Bpressed = i;  
       gotoAndStop(2);
       BtnNo1_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo2_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo11_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo22_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       Btns_Detail.gotoAndStop(i);
function B2F(event:MouseEvent):void {
       var i:int = 1;
       Bpressed = i;
       trace(this[name]);  
       gotoAndStop(2);
       BtnNo1_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo2_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo11_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo22_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       Btns_Detail.gotoAndStop(i);
function B52F(event:MouseEvent):void {
       var i:int = 1;
       Bpressed = i;
       trace(this[name]);  
       gotoAndStop(2);
       BtnNo1_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo2_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo11_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       BtnNo22_mc.gotoAndStop(i);
       Btns_Detail.gotoAndStop(i);
the reason I have all those functions is that I don't know the code to get the "InstanceName" of Button that is pressed?....For example if I know the Button pressed is "B13_mc" and I could store it in a variable, then I can have a chance to make a single Function instead of 52 Functions!
that's my opinion, but What is your valuable suggestion please???
Best wishes - Ali